Why .local/share ?

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Thiago Macieira wrote:

> As for a lib, I very much agree that there should be a directory. In fact, 
> I've recently started using ~/.local/bin for my own executables instead of 
> ~/bin. That allows me to keep my $HOME clean. But I don't think an environment 
> variable will be of much use unless it's $LD_LIBRARY_PATH...

I think the idea here was more for user-installed plugins that the app 
would dlopen() at runtime rather than rely on the linker finding at load 
time.  No $LD_LIBRARY_PATH annoyance needed in this case.

	-brian